SilkRoad, Another HR Software Service in the Cloud, Lands $35 Million

Can the market support another cloud-based HR software provider? SilkRoad investors certainly think so.
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Research In Motion Shows Off BlackBerry 10 Prototype

With the company at a crossroads, CEO Thorsten Heins provides a peek at the BlackBerry 10 operating system due out later this year.
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IBM’s Pick of SugarCRM Creates More Rivals for Oracle

Much has been made of the rivalry between Oracle Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. in cloud computing. But last week a venture-backed start-up secured one of the richest contracts in business for software to manage sales, marketing and customer relationships.

Seesmic Lays Off Half Its Staff as It Pivots Back to Social Cross-Posting

San Francisco start-up Seesmic laid off 18 employees this week, bringing its staff down to 15 people.
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Huh? After Spending $278 Million, Salesforce.com Backs Out of San Francisco Campus.

What’s behind Saleforce’s decision to pull back from developing a new corporate campus in San Francisco? Maybe it has to do with ballooning operational expenses?
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Don’t Look Now but Salesforce Stock Is in the Clouds

Why is Marc Benioff smiling today? Sales and billings are up.
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Salesforce.com Likes Facebook, Loves Big Deals Ahead of Earnings Report

Big deals with Facebook and in the finance industry ahead of Salesforce.com’s earnings report are spurring its shares upward today. The trouble will be in setting expectations for next quarter.
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Newly Public Jive Beats the Street

Jive’s first quarter as a public company comes out pretty good.
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Fusion-io Shares Whacked, but the Flash Madness Club Has a New Member

Fusion-io investors freak out over tighter margins. But never mind that. Fusion has a new customer: Salesforce.com
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eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.
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It's Business Time for Apple's iPad